| Subject: Re: Sam Cooke and Bobby Fuller. Deaths connected? |
Author:
Ryan Vandergriff
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Date Posted: Sat April 05, 2008 00:29:45
In reply to:
Cleftonefan
's message, "Re: Sam Cooke and Bobby Fuller. Deaths connected?" on Fri April 04, 2008 16:05:20
Hi All,
I agree that Bobby Fuller's death was not a "suicide", and I find it astonishing that after all of these years this case has remained, effectively, cold.
As far as Sam Cooke's death is concerned, I don't believe the "official" version of this tragedy. I think it more likely that Sam was the victim of a con perpetrated by Lisa Boyer, the woman that Sam apparently kidnapped and attempted to rape (None of which I believe for even a moment). Daniel Wolff, in his marvelous biography on Cooke, "You Send Me", makes a good case that Boyer was a prostitute who was known to be a professional roller, and that all of this played a huge roll in Sam's death. I don't believe that Bob Keane had anything to do with this. By 1964, Keane's involvement with Sam was long over with...
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